{"id":20352,"date":"2015-08-15T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=20352"},"modified":"2015-08-14T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:22:24","slug":"week-westerns-must-watch-westworld-hateful-eight-trailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/week-westerns-must-watch-westworld-hateful-eight-trailers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week of Westerns: Must-Watch Westworld and The Hateful Eight Trailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>There isn&#8217;t a western that&#8217;s just a western anymore. We&#8217;re living in a post-<em>Deadwood\u00a0<\/em>world now, where\u00a0<em>Hell on Wheel<\/em><em>s\u00a0<\/em>exists almost exclusively as a way to yearn for the superior and tragically cancelled HBO series. Everything else you might call a western is actually something else that might&#8217;ve just been a western 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><em>Justified<\/em>, FX&#8217;s recently ended series starring\u00a0<em>Deadwood&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>Timothy Olyphant, was a modern western with familiar western themes but decidedly unfamiliar backdrops. That series also starred the underrated Walton Goggins as the premier antithesis to Olyphant&#8217;s character. Goggins, perhaps without coincidence, happens to be in Tarantino&#8217;s second western film,\u00a0<em>The Hateful Eight<\/em>, due out this Christmas. Here&#8217;s the trailer for that movie, in which Kurt Russell reminds us all he&#8217;s still alive and Tarantino reminds us all he&#8217;s still the best dude ever:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gnRbXn4-Yis\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Best moment: when Tim Roth opens up his mouth for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn&#8217;t strictly a western either, since every Tarantino film is a Tarantino film first and anything else second.\u00a0<em>The Hateful Eight\u00a0<\/em>actually rings closest to Tarantino&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Reservoir\u00a0Dogs<\/em>,\u00a0putting in close proximity a group of dangerous and unpredictable personalities, as opposed to the more traditionally plotted\u00a0<em>Django Unchained<\/em>,\u00a0Tarantino&#8217;s other western film that isn&#8217;t actually a western film.<\/p>\n<p>Second on our list of sort-of things today is\u00a0<em>Westworld<\/em>, which might not have hit at a more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=jurassicpark4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">culturally poignant moment for a Michael Creighton\u00a0IP<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the trailer for the upcoming HBO series, based on an old movie, based on a book that is older but isn&#8217;t considered an old book because books are really, really old:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OM8HNuRLIBI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Best moment: when I thought that one shot was of John Hawkes. Worst moment: when I learned that John Hawkes isn&#8217;t actually in this series at all. I miss\u00a0<em>Deadwood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Get it? This is a western that&#8217;s the least western-like, due to the fact that it&#8217;s actually a science fiction tale about self-aware robots existing in a western theme park for people. The original film focused heavily on the human side of this story. This time around it&#8217;s more about the robots, and it&#8217;s also an HBO show. But it&#8217;s most definitely not a western. Except it kind of is.<\/p>\n<p>J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan, the same team behind the infallible\u00a0<em>Person of Interest<\/em>, are the primary creative forces behind this project. That should excite you. For now, though, go watch some\u00a0<em>Hell on Wheels\u00a0<\/em>on Netflix and weep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There isn&#8217;t a western that&#8217;s just a western anymore. We&#8217;re living in a post-Deadwood\u00a0world now, where\u00a0Hell on Wheels\u00a0exists almost exclusively as a way to yearn for the superior and tragically cancelled HBO series. Everything else you might call a western is actually something else that might&#8217;ve just been a western 50 years ago. Justified, FX&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":20369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[28,164,1361],"class_list":["post-20352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-movies","tag-trailers","tag-westerns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20352"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20372,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352\/revisions\/20372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}